Our Opportunity:
Chewys mission is to be the most trusted and convenient destination for pet parents and partners everywhere. We view pets (and pet parents) as family and are obsessed with meeting their needs and exceeding customer expectations through every interaction. Within Chewy the Chewy Health team is focused on redefining how vets and pet parents care for their pets and are on a multiyear journey to reinvent the experience of working with your veterinarian to keep your pets happy and healthy.
As part of this mission Chewy Vet Care is hiring an Associate Director Chewy Vet Care Operations to help us scale a connected seamless omnichannel customer experience for clients of our Chewy Vet Care practices. This leader will be charged with building a world class field operations organization team that delivers the best client experience in the industry overseeing practicelevel and regional operations for our clinics from endtoend and driving practice and regional performance to achieve our revenue profitability quality customer experience and employee engagement goals.
Our ideal candidate is an experienced operator with strong general management skills a passion for inspiring motivating developing and empowering teams and the business financial and strategic acumen to help deliver results and scale a rapidly growing business and team. The Associate Director Chewy Vet Care Operations will be a key leader and mentor in a highpace environment demanding clear and effective leadership.
What Youll Do:
- Partner crossfunctionally between stakeholders in Medical HR Operations and Support teams to both drive best in class daily operations and high impact process improvements.
- Oversee operations of Chewy Vet Care physical practices and local clinic teams (practice managers technicians and support staff) in specified Regional footprint.
- Champion and ensure consistent and effective of our sales and service strategy ensuring our people burnish and embody the Chewy brand and customerfirst culture; additionally ensure their presentation of our clinics consistently maintain brand standards both in terms of appearance and functionality.
- Set manage and exceed controllable revenue and cost targets at the clinic region and national level in partnership with clinics regional leaders and crossfunctional teams at Chewy.
- Understand business drivers and create opportunities to optimize them with a strong focus on improving volume/throughput service mix and costtoserve through local/store level levers and driving chainwide initiatives.
- Identify track and manage quality customer experience and employee experience metrics and performance indicators; Implement mechanisms to audit performance and drive continuous improvement through process tools/automation and training.
- Work with clinic teams and central supply chain & category management partners to manage supply chain and inventory flows to the clinics to ensure both products intended for sale to customers and GNFR/medical supplies are reliably in stock.
- Partner with recruiting to attract top Vet Tech support staff and clinic administration talent.
- Inspire and motivate our inclinic teams to provide a great client experience; Create implement and manage the employe engagement skill development and retention programs to keep them with Chewy.
- Constantly audit improve invent and WOW Chewys customers.
What Youll Need:
- BA/BS degree in Finance Business Engineering or equivalent experience 6 years of Operational Leadership roles)
- 10 years of multisite leadership experience in fastgrowth retail healthcare veterinary or services businesses.
- Drive strategic planning team development goal setting and .
- Develop and implement improved systems resources and processes saving the company significant money while improving employee experience.
- Develop and execute business strategies to align operational objectives and company goals.
- Effectively communicate and present performance and operational feedback back to the executive leadership team.
- Strong comprehensive business acumen and the willingness to move fast; demonstrate ability to lead through a rapid brick and mortar role out.
- Proven operator with a track record of delivering results in a retail P&L ownership role; Proven experience managing retail budgets and staffing at scale.
- Superior sense of ownership paired with a highquality bar and an unshakable growth mindset.
- Strong leadership skills and experience developing and managing a highperformance team.
- Demonstrated success in building a culture of experimentation learning and innovation.
- Inspirational leadership skills and entrepreneurial spirit.
- Up to 75 travel required must be willing to spend time in the field visiting and supporting clinic staff and regional leadership.
Bonus if you:
- MBA or equivalent degree
- Experience leading operations for a multisite veterinary group OR human health clinic
- Strong understanding of the overall pet care industry and recent trends
- In depth experience and understanding of the veterinary profession in the US
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Required Experience:
Director